Always learning, always improving

Posted by Justin on Mar 23, 2010 in Abaddons Musings, conveyancing, HIPs, lawyers, legal system, risk, training | 0 comments I spent all of today on a conveyancing CPD (continuous professional development) course in Tunbridge Wells.While most of the content was not new, it provided a forum for some interesting discussions with other solicitors about practices, procedures and attitudes to risk – and about “clients from hell”!It also left me with about a dozen possible improvements to make to paperwork...
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"Tragedy at Law" by Cyril Hare

Posted by Justin on Mar 20, 2010 in Abaddons Musings, Uncategorized | 0 comments Just finished reading this – on the advice of P D James, no less – “Written with elegance and wit” – and thoroughly enjoyed itNot a thriller, but a “whodunnit – and why?” it is truly elegant and quite captivating. A detailed account of a near closed room mystery with a legal background and well-described characters, the outcome is both surprising...
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Small town delights (number 99 in an infinite series)

Posted by Justin on Mar 20, 2010 in Abaddons Musings, small towns, Tenterden | 0 comments This morning, while shopping in Tenterden with my daughter, I was approached by a postman in Waitrose with a recorded delivery letter that he had tried to deliver to my home earlier.He had left the usual card, so that I could collect the item from the sorting office. However, seeing me go into Waitrose, he followed, and I was able to take and sign for the item there.That’s what I call...
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Top tips for 2010

Posted by Justin on Mar 18, 2010 in Abaddons Musings, conveyancing, lawyers, legal system, professionals | 0 comments In the Law Society Property Section magazine for this month, 11 members of the section’s executive committee gave their top tips on how to prosper in the new decadeAlmost all of them were very good, but almost all of them were steps, attitudes and procedures we at Nelsons Property Lawyers had adopted from Day 1 – we are looking for ways to imprive beyond these relatively basic client...
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Money laundering

Posted by Justin on Mar 18, 2010 in Abaddons Musings, conveyancing, lawyers, legal system, risk | 0 comments Though conveyancers have been at the sharp end of money laundering activity to date, it seems that litigators are now being targeted as wellUntil now, it was thought that litigation was a less fertile area for laundering the proceeds of crime than conveyancing was: fraudsters had been setting up spurious property transactions in order to launder money, while litigation was considered a less...
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